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The legislature said goodbye this week to someone who has been in the thick of the action on almost every side of the fence.

Dwain Lingenfelter has about two years to prove he has the mettle and merit to become the next premier of the province.

Premier Brad Wall's way these days, it's likely because most everything is going his way.

Sask. Party candidate Corey O'soup, his wife Jacinda, and their four kids. Photograph by: Facebook, File SASKATOON a ' Corey Oa TMsoup is now the Saskatchewan Party candidate in Riversdale after a nomination meeting Thursday.

Dwain Lingenfelter waves to supporters Saturday after being elected leader of the Saskatchewan NDP.

It would be a mistake to believe newly minted leader NDP Dwain Lingenfelter's first serious challenge will be to heal the fissure in the party that saw the relatively unknown Ryan Meili secure 45 per cent of the votes.

Ryan Meili, the man who came in second in the NDP leadership race on the weekend, says he hopes to run for office, but not in former leader Lorne Calvert's constituency.

A veteran NDP politician in Saskatchewan is stepping down so the party's new leader can run for a seat in the legislature.

Ken Miller liked what he saw on day two of training camp and notes a few standouts.

Tributes were paid Friday to Lorne Calvert, shown here at the Saskatchewan legislature earlier this spring.

Former Saskatchewan premier Roy Romanow says the New Democratic Party has to be rebuilt and rethink some of its positions.

Previously a 25-year employee with Canada Safeway and was the first female president of the United Food and Commercial Workers union provincial council in 1993.

This is the third in a series of profiles on candidates for the NDP leadership. Does a young, soft-spoken social-activist doctor have a chance to lead a party that prefers its leaders to be older, fiery seasoned pros who've paid their dues in the party's trenches? The answer would have likely been a resounding "no" when the now-34-year-old Ryan ...

With Saskatchewan's long-time NDP government hoping for a rebirth, Finance Minister Andrew Thomson on Thursday morning delivered measures aimed at the young and the old in a provincial budget that was derided as reckless by the opposition parties for its whopping $8.3 billion in expenditures.

Yogi Huyghebaert is sworn in as Minister of Corrections, Public safety and Policing by Premier Brad Wall.

This is the first in a series of profiles on candidates for the NDP leadership. A cabinet position is a glorious opportunity to highlight a politician's profile and proficiencies, but it can be a curse that underscores one's short-comings. Deb Higgins likely wouldn't be running for the NDP leadership were it not for her cabinet appointment in ...

Dwain Lingenfelter, whose campaign for the Saskatchewan NDP leadership was at the centre of a membership controversy earlier this month, has raised closed to $100,000 in donations over $250. With the Saskatchewan NDP leadership race in the final stretch, the frontrunner for donations continues to be Dwain Lingenfelter.

It was a week like few others in Saskatchewan politics -- the end of the legislative sitting, the last day in the house for outgoing NDP Leader Lorne Calvert and the release of a report into irregular NDP memberships bought by Dwain Lingenfelter's leadership campaign -- so the notebook is bursting this time around.

LORNE CALVERT: selfless and respected. Photograph by: Reuters, The Leader-Post To better understand who Lorne Calvert really is, and why people think of him the way they do, one would have had to see how he commanded two rooms in the Saskatchewan Legislative Building Thursday -- his last day as an MLA sitting in the legislature.

When it came time to voice his last two questions in the Saskatchewan legislature, former premier Lorne Calvert was true to form -- he stuck up for the people he represents.